How could I leave my loving, erratic, harebrained mother to fend for herself?

我怎么能让我最爱的，不稳定的，轻率的妈妈独自谋生呢？

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Faraj's mother,Zahwe, was left to fend for herself and the children.

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But it may have provided Sonia an early opportunity to develop the character to fend for herself.

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Suppose someday we all disappeared and she had to fend for herself?

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"She grew up having to fend for herself, " he says.

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